Baton pass

It is the time for telling secrets that have held you or others prisoner. It is a time to come out of any "cage of guilt"*²⁶ created at first by a little lie or deceptive omission, but perpetuated by more lies to protect the first making the bars bigger and bigger. It is not just about breakout freedom or divine forgiveness, but it is “…so that the person you're confessing to knows that they're not alone."*¹⁴ Small lies and omissions are common in life, but they seldom forecast the entrapment they create.

PLAN AHEAD AND BE INTENTIONAL

The baton passes needs to be planned in the backstretch, then executed with words in the far corner and reinforced with your life throughout. The homestretch should be left entirely for applause. Clearly those seduced by fear and denial, never get to the backstretch or make a good handoff. The Dragon knows that and that is a big part of the reason he keeps throwing them to you........y

WOUNDS THAT MAY NEVER HEAL

CREATE A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE GENERATIONS COME

All of these writings, pictures, voice recordings and videos create a “partnership of the generations between those who are living, those who have passed and those who are yet to be born"*²⁴ If you do these things you can start living forever right now. As The Gladiator, Maximus Decimus Maridius,  inspired his legions, "What we do here today will echo in eternity.”*²⁵ If you pass the baton well, it will resound through the generations.

CREATE A MEASURE OF YOUR OWN PEACE

Carl professed no fear of death, but a terrible fear of being forgotten. He feared that in the end, his life would not have really mattered. He confided that his worst fear was that he would drop the baton and die with regrets.

 He was a man of few words, but a big heart. His family was so scattered and distant that few could afford to visit him and he was beyond traveling. He knew he couldn't call them and be able to say what he wanted to say – there was just too much.